Jeremy Corbyn: Labour ‘not doing enough’ to win next election

U.K. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Monday told MPs that the party was not doing enough to win the next general election, scheduled for 2020.

At a meeting of Labour MPs and peers, Corbyn said his party was moving in the right direction but more needs to be done to “focus on taking on the Tories — and for our debates to be focused on policy, not personality,” the Guardian reported.

According to Corbyn, Sadiq Khan’s victory in the London mayoral election “is only the first stage in our task of building a winning electoral majority, attracting voters from all the other parties and mobilizing those who have been turned off politics altogether.”

“Last week’s elections showed Labour’s recovery has begun in earnest. We now need to work together to turn that into the kind of sustained revival that will deliver an election victory for the whole country in 2020.”

Corbyn told MPs not to be “parading on the media” and that they should “stop talking about ourselves.”

“We need, if not across-the-board unity, then at least respect for each other – and to turn our fire on this Tory government.”

Labour suffered significant losses in Scotland in last week’s election, but held on to most of its council seats in England and won mayoral elections in London, Bristol, Liverpool and Salford.